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Complexity in Social Networks
The “network” is defined by people who use the product to interact with each other.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
On the deflation side, social networks can get less cool as more people join. The canonical example here is what happened to Facebook when parents started joining: all the young people left for Instagram and Snapchat. Social networks need to be analyzed based on more than their network effects... There are three axes for analyses: Social Capital, U... See more
Packy McCormick • Status Monkeys - By Packy McCormick - Not Boring by Packy McCormick
The usual cycle with social media sites is that they start out being very flexible and open, and are happy to have users even if those users are sharing content that sends other users off-site. But, over time, they try to get more content hosted on their own systems, and to promote it more relative to the competition. Google, while not a social pla... See more
Byrne Hobart • Price-First or Thesis-First Research?
Managing in environments that have strong network effects is challenging because the feedback loops accelerate change: seemingly in the blink of an eye, cash disappears; platforms like TikTok, an entertainment app, and Pinduoduo, an e-commerce business, gain hundreds of millions of users almost overnight. In other instances, network effects impede
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